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European Daily Catch: Know Your Consumers

{ Posted on Jan 27 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, European Union, Rebecca Wilder
by Rebecca Wilder European Daily Catch: Know Your Consumers Today’s European Daily Catch compares the aggregate implications of the reported January 1-point rise in French household confidence to the reported January stabilization of Italian consumer confidence. Specifically, French consumers could be ‘happier’ but ...Read More »

The Irrelevance Of Bond Ratings

{ Posted on Jan 15 2012 by Dan Crawford (Rdan) }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, bond ratings, European Union
I had been looking for something more technical on how rating were determined when considering bond ratings for sovereign debt, but Barkley Rosser at Econospeak says it in non technical terms: The Irrelevance Of Bond Ratings It was front page news today, ...Read More »

The Future of the European Union May Be Decided in Less than a Week

{ Posted on Sep 01 2011 by Shah Gilani }
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The clock may be ticking on the future of the European Union (EU). After being shaken to its core by the sovereign debt crisis, the entire Eurozone now runs the risk of blowing up within a week. Germany's ...Read More »

Martin Wolf Buries the Lede

{ Posted on May 04 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, bailout, European Union, Eurozone, solvency crisis, Uncategorized
From his column in today's FT:Even this is too simple, once one allows for banking: Ireland's net debt was a mere 12% of GDP in 2007In other words, in FT World, privatizing the profit and socializing the risk is A ...Read More »

Start from Silliness and the Product is…?

{ Posted on Jan 20 2011 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, bad economics, European Union, solvency crisis, Uncategorized, war
Begin with a Really Stupid Assumption:Assume Tom Friedman is correct.Not about the brilliance of cab drivers, or the flatness of the Earth, or even that AGW is the route to revitalize the U.S. economy.* But assume as valid his claim ...Read More »

The Pound’s Not Sinking, The Yen’s Not Keeping Up…

{ Posted on Dec 31 2010 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, blogs, current account, Economics, European Union
Spent the past few minutes reading Alea. jck notes that, over the past five years, the Pound has grown in importance at the expense of the yen and that the Euro has done the same against the dollar.If this ...Read More »

A Conversation with George Soros

{ Posted on Sep 20 2010 by Ken Houghton }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear, China, economic crisis, European Union, Eurozone, international trade, Obama Administration, politics
With thanks to Felix Salmon for arranging the invitation. There’s an episode of House where he has to get rid of one of the people for his new team.  By the end of the episode, the sharpest person in ...Read More »